The Poison

This article is about the Bullet for My Valentine album. For other uses, see Poison (disambiguation).

The Poison
Studio album by
Bullet for My Valentine
Released3 October 2005
RecordedMarch–June 2005
Studio
Genre
Length53:26
Label
ProducerColin Richardson
Bullet for My Valentine chronology
Hand of Blood
(2005) 		The Poison
(2005) 		Scream Aim Fire
(2008)
Deluxe edition
Singles from The Poison
  1. "4 Words (To Choke Upon)"
    Released: 28 March 2005
  2. "Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)"
    Released: 19 September 2005
  3. "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)"
    Released: 3 February 2006
  4. "Tears Don't Fall"
    Released: 17 June 2006

The Poison is the debut studio album by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. The album was released on 3 October 2005 through Visible Noise Records in the UK, and on 14 February 2006 in the United States, through Trustkill Records. The album included 11 new songs and two previously heard songs, "Cries in Vain", which was previously heard from the band's self-titled UK EP and from their US EP, Hand of Blood, as well as from "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" was previously included on the same US release. Different editions of the album contain the song "Hand of Blood", previously heard from these EPs, replacing "Spit You Out".[5]

The album debuted at number 128 on the Billboard 200[6] and number 2 on the Heatseekers Chart,[6] and as of 30 January 2018, the album has sold 1,600,000 copies worldwide[7] and 500,000 copies in the US.[8] It is the band's most commercially successful effort internationally, earning a both gold certification by both the RIAA in the United States and the band's native BPI in the United Kingdom, and a platinum certification by Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) in Germany.

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